§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Oral Answer to the 1439W hon. Member for Southend, West of 3 February 2004,Official Report, column 615, how much money was raised in fines from (a) speed cameras and (b) speed traps in each year since their inception in (i) Southend, West and (ii) Southend. [153473]
§ Caroline Flint[holding answer 9 February 2004]: Available information on the number of fixed penalties and court fines ordered to be paid for the offence of `speeding detected by camera' in the calendar years 1997 to 2001 is shown in the table. It is not possible from the data collected centrally to identify Southend, West and Southend within the police force area of Essex.
Information is not available on speed traps as the police do not use this as an enforcement tool.
Information for 2002 will be available in the spring.
Fixed penalty and court proceedings data for all speeding offences detected by cameras1,2 in the Essex police force area, 1997–2001 Fixed penalties Court Proceedings Number of tickets3 Estimated revenue (£)4 Number of fines Total amount of fine (£) Average fine (£)5 1997 18,800 753,700 880 93,900 107 1998 8,700 346,600 1,700 227,400 134 1999 19,800 791,400 2,100 357,400 169 2000 46,300 2,007,200 2,800 317,800 115 2001 81,900 4,911,100 6,500 651,200 101 1 Automatic cameras until 1998, all camera types from 1999. 2 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. 3 Paid, i.e. no further action. 4 Estimate based on £40 fixed penalty charge to October 2000. From November 2000 the penalty was raised to £60. 5 Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. Note: Reliable data only available from 1997 onwards for speeding.
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Fixed penalty and court proceedings data for all speeding offences1 in the Essex police force area, 1997–2001 Fixed penalties Court Proceedings Number of tickets2 Estimated revenue (£)2 Number of fines Total amount of fine (£) Average fine (£)4 1997 48,100 1,924,900 5,000 643,600 128 1998 19,300 771,300 4,700 675,200 142 1999 57,900 2,315,100 6,600 933,900 141 2000 102,300 4,434,100 6,300 774,900 123 2001 168,900 10,133,100 9,100 1,020,100 112 1 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. 2 Paid, i.e. no further action. 3 Estimate based on £40 fixed penalty charge to October 2000. From November 2000 the penalty was raised to £60. 4 Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court.